High Temperature Heat Exchanger Project: Quarterly Progress Report January 1, 2007 through March 31, 2007

Authors

Anthony Hechanova, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Funder

United States. Department of Energy

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

4-29-2007

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Publisher Location

Las Vegas (Nev.)

First page number:

1

Last page number:

51

Abstract

• The variation of sulfur dioxide production (throughput) of the baseline design of the Ceramatec sulfuric acid decomposer with total mass flow rate of reacting flow has been calculated. According to the calculations, the sulfur dioxide production increases as the total mass flow rate of reacting flow increases regardless of the fact that decomposition percentage of sulfuric trioxide decreases. A parametric study of the baseline design of the Ceramatec sulfuric acid decomposer was performed.

• The thermal performance using various channel geometries for the decomposer was studied. The baseline design (straight channels) has 89.5% thermal efficiency while the thermal efficiency of the alternative designs can be enhanced up to 95.9% (for the diamond-shaped channel design).

Keywords

Decomposition (Chemistry); Electric power production; Heat exchangers; Hydrogen as fuel; Nuclear energy; Sulfur

Disciplines

Chemistry | Heat Transfer, Combustion | Materials Science and Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Nuclear Engineering | Oil, Gas, and Energy

File Format

pdf

File Size

6200 KB

Language

English

Comments

Grant Number: DE-FC07-04ID14566

Rights

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Repository Citation

Hechanova, A. (2007). High Temperature Heat Exchanger Project: Quarterly Progress Report January 1, 2007 through March 31, 2007. 1-51.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/hrc_nstd_pubs/18